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I have CF DNS and the website works correctly for me in Italy so the answer is yes, changing DNS works, even Google's DNS should do it.

But the default ISP ones all block some websites related to piracy, and sadly for most people that’s enough to deter them or worse, it leads them to visit suspicious websites and download viruses.

You should still not use MONEY in Postgres, even their own website says so [1].

I still wouldn't use floats/numerics/decimals to store currency either in any db generally, as said by others you're going to end up with inaccurate numbers [2].

Therefore using integers is in fact very good for this use-case, especially if you are in accounting or book-keeping!

Source: I work for a Fintech company that processes millions of payments.

[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This#Don.27t_use... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRI1IfStY0

I'm Italian, I've tried multiple layouts and keyboards, at the end I've settled on the US one which is better for programming (positioning of the brackets are better) and on MacOS I can just long press to get the accentuated letters.

On Windows I use the US INTL layout and it works really well even for accentuated characters. Just by typing ` followed by the letter that you want accentuated, for example `e = è, even my non coder friends prefer that layout over the official Italian one.

But your keyboard it's actually pretty good in my opinion, you can write in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Greek and probably a few more languages that I can't recognize, so I would propose to change the name to qwerty-weu (West Europe) since that seems the spirit of the project.

I signed up and I really like the concept and the ideals behind satellite, kudos for that!

But here some of my opinions to improve the experience:

The sign-up should say the minimum amount of ETH required to create an account, I wanted to test the process of getting it from the platform so I used the "Need ETH? We got you covered" button and it worked without a problem.

There are some tiny problem with the UI, for example the font color for some parts of the UI blends in with the background and makes it really difficult to read it, for example: usernames on comments, the network activity (navbar, left of "Media"), titles and icons on the left menu bar on profiles ("Public Earth ID" and "Satellite Data"), bio on profiles, etc...

The landing page looks beautiful, but sometimes it freezes my browser for a second, since it is heavy js, but that might be my fault because of my 200+ tabs open.

I am really curious on how Satellite will expand and scale with more users, especially the constellation page, and once again congrats, you are building the future of web!

Imagine if something doesn't work and you followed exactly the documentation... at first I wouldn't think that there is something wrong with the docs but that I did something wrong on my implementation, that could lead to a lot of wasted time just because the company didn't write his own documentation.

I think that the "trust no password manager" concept goes too far, there are password managers out there that are encrypted and offline, and don't call home, examples are Keepass, pass, etc...

I think that part should be changed to "trust no cloud password manager" especially those who can't be accessed while being offline